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Bartosz Gałek updated AVRO-4040:
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    Description: 
While generating a class from my Avro schema, the `getSpecificData` and 
`getSchema` [methods are added automaticaly|#L180-L183]]. 

These methods are not defined in user schemas, which can be confusing.It's 
particularly problematic when analyzing such a class (i.e., via reflection or 
serialization).

Libraries like `Jackson`, `Gson`, or `Springdoc` should ignore these fields. 
However, each library has its way of ignoring public fields/getters 
(`@JsonIgnore`, `@Expose`).
The Avro class generator should allow other libraries to handle those "special" 
methods/fields without introducing additional coupling to those libraries in 
the Avro project, of course.

*I suggest annotating those methods with some kind of `@AvroGeneratedMethod` 
(or existing `@AvroGenerated`) to address this problem.* 

Any library that tries to do something with Avro-generated classes can be 
configured to ignore those Avro-specific methods.

If this plan is ok for maintainers, I could try to make a pull request with my 
team.

  was:
While generating a class from my Avro schema, the `getSpecificData` and 
`getSchema` [methods are added automaticaly|#L180-L183]]. 

These methods are not defined in user schemas, which can be confusing.It's 
particularly problematic when analyzing such a class (i.e., via reflection or 
serialization).

Libraries like `Jackson`, `Gson`, or `Springdoc` should ignore these fields. 
However, each library has its way of ignoring public fields/getters 
(`@JsonIgnore`, `@Expose`).
The Avro class generator should allow other libraries to handle those "special" 
methods/fields without introducing additional coupling to those libraries in 
the Avro project, of course.

*I suggest annotating those methods with some kind of `@AvroGeneratedMethod` 
(or existing `@AvroGenerated`) to address this.* 

Any library that tries to do something with Avro-generated classes can be 
configured to ignore those Avro-specific methods.

If this plan is ok for maintainers, I could try to make a pull request with my 
team.


> annotate `getSpecificData` and `getSchema` methods in Avro generated classes
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>
>                 Key: AVRO-4040
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-4040
>             Project: Apache Avro
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Bartosz Gałek
>            Priority: Major
>
> While generating a class from my Avro schema, the `getSpecificData` and 
> `getSchema` [methods are added automaticaly|#L180-L183]]. 
> These methods are not defined in user schemas, which can be confusing.It's 
> particularly problematic when analyzing such a class (i.e., via reflection or 
> serialization).
> Libraries like `Jackson`, `Gson`, or `Springdoc` should ignore these fields. 
> However, each library has its way of ignoring public fields/getters 
> (`@JsonIgnore`, `@Expose`).
> The Avro class generator should allow other libraries to handle those 
> "special" methods/fields without introducing additional coupling to those 
> libraries in the Avro project, of course.
> *I suggest annotating those methods with some kind of `@AvroGeneratedMethod` 
> (or existing `@AvroGenerated`) to address this problem.* 
> Any library that tries to do something with Avro-generated classes can be 
> configured to ignore those Avro-specific methods.
> If this plan is ok for maintainers, I could try to make a pull request with 
> my team.



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